oh man midnight on the bay is a stone groove
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:08 (ten years ago) link
Stills' voice is fucking gross.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:09 (ten years ago) link
haha black coral is hilarious
take it easy DOWN THE-AHyou've only SO MUCH AIR
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:12 (ten years ago) link
goddamn these lyrics are next level
Have you ever been down deep?I mean way down under the oceanJust inside Odin's reachBetter beware of this potion
And remember you don't belongIt always seemed so unfairThe fishes around will always remind youGot to go slow, take it easy down thereYou've only so much air
When you get a little deeperIf you slow down you might keep herThe sea, unforgiving and she's hardBut she'll make love to youShow you glimpses of the stars
At about two hundred feetYou realize the perilBut seductive is the deepThat shark over there holds no terror
For a while you really belongThe ocean will always shareYou become one like friends and loversBut remember, take care, she'll try to keep you there
The deeper you go'Cause of the pressure of the airThe nitrogen comes and goes, gets you highIt's an alien atmosphere
They call it rapture of the deep, be you not afraidYou're too far down by now to be scaredTwo hundred and eighty-seven feetI saw Jesus and it made sense that He was there
So belong but don't be longThere's plenty of ocean to sharePlease take heed, there's mouths to feedThe ocean, she'll provideDon't take more than you need'Cause Heaven just might be the sea
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
you take that midnight on the bay, lotta love, and ocean girl and you have the beginnings of neil's great lost yacht rock album. this could be the coverhttp://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ls1o32NzB51qf4c00o1_500.jpg
― tylerw, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:13 (ten years ago) link
he has the best face!
― La Lechera, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:15 (ten years ago) link
maybe he could have repurposed "Kahuna Sunset" by Buffalo Springfield from the archives too
― sinister porpoise (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:16 (ten years ago) link
yeahhh, and "wind through my sails" and "sail away" would probably work in there too. there actually was supposed to be a geffen era album called "Island In The Sun."
― tylerw, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:20 (ten years ago) link
i love this idea
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:43 (ten years ago) link
and lol @
Have you ever been down deep?I mean way down under the ocean
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:44 (ten years ago) link
dancing across the water
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:48 (ten years ago) link
and windward passage!
― Euler, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:54 (ten years ago) link
I saw Jesus and it made sense that He was there
― famous instagram God (waterface), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:56 (ten years ago) link
BETTER BE-WEAH OF THESE MOOHHTIONS
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 6 June 2014 17:58 (ten years ago) link
i'm gonna start using "Have you ever been down deep? / I mean way down under the ocean" when i meet new people
― marcos, Friday, 6 June 2014 17:59 (ten years ago) link
I actually like this line! It's my favorite part of the song, along with the weird instrumental intro/outro thing. As gross as Stills' voice is, the delivery helps; the whole song looks fucking ridiculous on paper but...ehh I give up. :)
― cwkiii, Friday, 6 June 2014 18:41 (ten years ago) link
It's Friday, Defend Stephen Stills Why Not?
― cwkiii, Friday, 6 June 2014 18:42 (ten years ago) link
That shark over there
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Friday, 6 June 2014 22:11 (ten years ago) link
Stills' voice is fucking gross.― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 6, 2014 12:09 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, June 6, 2014 12:09 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Something happens at 1:54 here that makes this^^^ feel like an understatement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NinBbafMn3c
― cwkiii, Saturday, 14 June 2014 18:50 (ten years ago) link
YouTubes of each (though a couple have already been removed), next to brief commentaries by Andy Greene (page by page, but loading pretty quickly this afternoon):http://www.rollingstone.com/music/pictures/20-insanely-great-neil-young-songs-only-hardcore-fans-know-20140515/1-kansas-0315696
― dow, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:14 (nine years ago) link
how many of these are on Tyler's Sad Movies comp
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:17 (nine years ago) link
not all of 'em but if you throw in the bad news and the homegrown comps, i think that about covers it. can't believe "give me strength" isn't on the RS list.
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:24 (nine years ago) link
the bad news and the homegrown comps Eh? Where are these?
― dow, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:28 (nine years ago) link
yonder!http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/32393488141/homegrown-the-lost-album-neil-youngs-memoir-ishttp://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/24071228066/bad-news-neil-young-in-the-1980s-as-a-follow-up
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:31 (nine years ago) link
lol @ Neil in leather pants btw
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:37 (nine years ago) link
lol yeah i like everything about that pic
― tylerw, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:44 (nine years ago) link
Thanks! I've got Sad Movies, but don't remember seeing these at all, although Neil's pants ring a bell (not in a good way). Here he is, blazin' a 12 minute "Homegrown" with Willie and the Horse at Farm Aid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uALLzqB9GvY
― dow, Thursday, 26 June 2014 22:51 (nine years ago) link
dang near 13 min., that is.
http://m.rollingstone.com/music/videos/neil-young-teams-with-new-kickstarter-campaign-to-save-the-rainforest-20140728#ixzz38nZJFctQ
― Randall "Humble" Pie (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 28 July 2014 20:53 (nine years ago) link
Says he's gonna make an album with Willie Nelson's sons, Lukas and Michah. Lukas's voice and lead guitar is differently quirky than his Pa's, to whose Heroes he contributed rolling drama, like a somewhat diffently stoned Jimmy Webb. Hope his group Promise Of The Real get to pitch in, maybe Willie will too. Was more familiar with Micah as visual artis, but he's been showing up live with his relatives and Neil, doing his share. Pono's out now---text and more on the video, though haven't watched yet:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/neil-young-recording-new-album-with-willie-nelsons-sons-20150108?utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=daily&utm_campaign=010815_16&utm_medium=email&ea=YmFtYWxsYW1hQGFvbC5jb20=
― dow, Friday, 9 January 2015 02:50 (nine years ago) link
*are* differently quirky, duhhh
― dow, Friday, 9 January 2015 02:51 (nine years ago) link
jeez typos fuc u fone
here's a show from last year w/ the nelson boys' band. "the promise of the real" is like the worst band name of all time, but I can imagine neil thinking it was real cool. http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=1989
― tylerw, Friday, 9 January 2015 15:32 (nine years ago) link
Silver & Gold came on shuffle yesterday. Much better than I remember it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 9 January 2015 16:00 (nine years ago) link
Album cover art done with the Game Boy printer
― Wu-Tang Clannad (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 9 January 2015 16:12 (nine years ago) link
i enjoy random tracks from silver and gold when they come on unexpectedly, yea. but whenever i put it on intentionally i tend to get bored.
i remember being a little bored with comes a time when i first got it, too, but that one gets better and better the more i listen to it
― marcos, Friday, 9 January 2015 16:15 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, some of those albums really require some time and room to grow on me. The thing about Lukas is, judging by his own albums and appearances, live and studio, with his father, seems like he could participate at whatever level Neil requires: as a co-writer, duet partner (vocal and/or guitar), strictly as a sideman, or in the trad country way, as opening act, then as director of his and Neil's backing band, during Neil's set. (What I'd like even more: new Traveling Wilburys incl. Neil and Willie, or at least Neil.)
― dow, Friday, 9 January 2015 16:44 (nine years ago) link
i hope promise of the real is involved just so they can call it Promise Of The Neil.
― da croupier, Friday, 9 January 2015 19:17 (nine years ago) link
I wonder how many people showed up for that Neil Willie + Young Nelson gig.
― Dinsdale, Friday, 9 January 2015 20:30 (nine years ago) link
Oh yeah, I finally got around to checking A Letter From Home on Spotify (don't buy; sound quality's not worth it). From my P&J comments, soon for bloglivian:
A Letter Home: Mostly well-chosen chestnuts, though Jerry Lee’s version of “Early Morning Rain” is the only one that totally keeps the song’s I-been-there aspects from eventually turning into schlock of recognition via droning mildew accumulation of self-pity: he goes from firm declaration, “cold an’ Drunk, as Ah can be,” while sounding all-too-cold sober (worked up to a tolerance level again?) to getting tickled at the sad truth that "Naw, yew cain’t hop a jet plane, like no freight train." Also mostly good performances, starting with an impromptu but sincere-sounding letter to Mom, advising her that it’s time to talk to Dad again, since they’re finally in the same place, and "Remember how we used to watch the weather report together, up in Winnipeg?” Telling her ‘bout how there’s a weatherman for the world now, named Al, and people getting mad at him when things go wrong, and they’re going real wrong, all over the world. (He’s in a record booth in Memphis, and being history-minded, maybe thinking about how, when Elvis first recorded at Sun, he was making these same auto-dispense records for his own Mom.)But the sound quality is sometimes distracting, especially when his acoustic guitar sounds out of tune, if not warped. Really self-indulgent, and he should have made it a free download---although that wouldn’t appease vinyl freaks, so here y’all are.Nice surprise: his piano does sound in tune, rollicking through “Reason To Believe,” of all sad songs---inappropriate, but who cares. Also good piano on “On The Road Again,” good neck harp too, and Jack White picks and sings bits there too. Young leads me through some lyrics I don’t remember noticing before, like when he and White do the Everlys’ “I Wonder If I Care As Much” (teven in the moments he thinks he can’t bear, even then,“I wonder if I care”: depression as self-defense, self-medication?) But think I’d think about more if the surface noise and wobble didn’t come through even on digital files. “Don’t overthink it,” he’d prob advise. So that's all.
― dow, Friday, 9 January 2015 23:48 (nine years ago) link
welcome to the desert of the promise of the real
― I dunno. (amateurist), Friday, 9 January 2015 23:49 (nine years ago) link
Didn't they release a clean-sounding version of this album? They called it Audiophile version, IIRC.
― Dinsdale, Saturday, 10 January 2015 06:22 (nine years ago) link
i really love A Letter Home, and the sound quality seems as intrinsic an element as the lo-fi quality of prime GBV, which I also love (so ymmv)
― Rallsballs@onelist.com (stevie), Saturday, 10 January 2015 16:17 (nine years ago) link
Noise of recording mechanism etc. is more noticeable with this kind of music; I don't mind it w garage rock. Good to know there's an audiophile version of this, though prob pricey.
― dow, Saturday, 10 January 2015 23:04 (nine years ago) link
R.I.P. Tim Drummond:http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/tim-drummond-bassist-neil-young-bob-dylan-dead-20150112
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 12 January 2015 18:40 (nine years ago) link
yeahhh bummer. rough time to be a neil young bassist -- first talbot has a stroke, then rosas dies and now this! drummond had an amazing career -- from james brown to neil to dylan (and that's just scratching the surface).
― tylerw, Monday, 12 January 2015 18:54 (nine years ago) link
Yeah, totally. Tim was with Brown for the Boston '68 show (the night after Dr. King's assassination) and the Vietnam tour (where they were supposedly shot at) -- after that, dealing with Neil's mood swings must've felt like a vacation.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 12 January 2015 19:01 (nine years ago) link
so many good drummond quotes in the csny doom tour oral history:"The promoters supplied us with cocaine if we wanted it. I was like, 'I'm not putting this shit up my nose.' I was into cocaine back then, but I got my own. Then they all came to me wanting some of mine! I had to send somebody out to help these guys out. There was an ample amount. You could find it anywhere. I did my share, and I'm still here. It's all a matter of how smart you were. There wasn't any heroin, though. That took you the other way."
Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/the-oral-history-of-csnys-infamous-doom-tour-20140619#ixzz3OdXqOh7Z
― tylerw, Monday, 12 January 2015 19:25 (nine years ago) link
hahaha holy hell:
Drummond: "He played us all the songs from Blood on the Tracks on acoustic guitar. We were on twin beds, across from each other. Oh God, I can't tell you how great it was. At one point Stephen said something to him about the songs not being good. I was so Goddamn embarrassed. He was probably coked out. Dylan, being the arrogant man that he was said, 'Well, Stephen, play me one of your songs.' That was the end of it. Stephen couldn't even find one string from another at that point."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 12 January 2015 20:17 (nine years ago) link
they should do a quantum leap type show where stills travels from time period to time period negging shakespeare, genghis khan, etc
― da croupier, Monday, 12 January 2015 20:27 (nine years ago) link